Camp Bonneville
National Veterans Cemetery:
I will work to dedicate a portion of Camp Bonneville as a final resting place
for those who served this nation with distinction. I spoke with Senator Patty
Murray on Monday, 17 March 2008, when she was at the Cowlitz County
courthouse to hear from Veterans.
I told her about Camp Bonneville which is 3,840 acre army training camp
that has been turned over to Clark County. I told Senator Murray that the
Willamette National Cemetery was reaching capacity. Camp Bonneville with the
ties to training our military would be the perfect candidate for a new national
cemetery.
My father, a World War II veteran, will be laid to rest in the Eagle Point
National Cemetery in southern Oregon.
I recently visited the Normandy American Cemetery which sits on a cliff
overlooking Omaha Beach and adjacent to Pointe du Hoc. One cannot visit
without an sense of wonder and awe at the sacrifices of those who fought.
A National Cemetery here in Clark County would be a fitting tribute.
We shall only remain the 'home of the free' so long as we remain 'the land of
the brave'.
Veterans know well the cost:
These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine
patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that
stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like
hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder
the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem
too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
—Thomas Paine author of Common Sense, 23 December 1776
National Veterans Cemetery:
I will work to dedicate a portion of Camp Bonneville as a final resting place
for those who served this nation with distinction. I spoke with Senator Patty
Murray on Monday, 17 March 2008, when she was at the Cowlitz County
courthouse to hear from Veterans.
I told her about Camp Bonneville which is 3,840 acre army training camp
that has been turned over to Clark County. I told Senator Murray that the
Willamette National Cemetery was reaching capacity. Camp Bonneville with the
ties to training our military would be the perfect candidate for a new national
cemetery.
My father, a World War II veteran, will be laid to rest in the Eagle Point
National Cemetery in southern Oregon.
I recently visited the Normandy American Cemetery which sits on a cliff
overlooking Omaha Beach and adjacent to Pointe du Hoc. One cannot visit
without an sense of wonder and awe at the sacrifices of those who fought.
A National Cemetery here in Clark County would be a fitting tribute.
We shall only remain the 'home of the free' so long as we remain 'the land of
the brave'.
Veterans know well the cost:
These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine
patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that
stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like
hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder
the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem
too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
—Thomas Paine author of Common Sense, 23 December 1776
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Jon T. Haugen for Senate, 18th District (D)
Photo Credit: Jon Haugen